# xCHIMNEYx

> xCHIMNEYx is the chimney sweep & fireplace service operating system on the
> Biz Dev App: a complete business workspace — not a scheduling app and not
> a CRM — scaffolded with 16 modules, 5 record types and 4 named workflows
> that a chimney sweep & fireplace service business actually runs on. Work
> is priced on sweep and inspection by level, with liner, cap, and masonry
> repairs quoted separately.

## What it is for
A level-two inspection with photos is the sale. The sweep is the appointment.

The buyer is an owner or operator of a chimney sweep & fireplace service
business who is currently running the work across a calendar, a phone, a
notebook and a separate invoicing tool. xCHIMNEYx replaces that with one
record per customer and one record per job, carried from intake through
pricing, dispatch, proof of work, invoice and settlement.

## Category
Property & Real Estate — The buyer is an owner, a manager, or an agent. The deliverable is a documented
condition of an asset.

## What the platform assesses
Interior flue camera frames grade creosote level and liner damage into a
documented inspection finding.

The assessment never sets prices. Quantities come from what was measured or
counted; rates come from the operator's own book. That is what makes two
people pricing the same job land on the same number.

## How work is priced
sweep and inspection by level, with liner, cap, and masonry repairs quoted
separately

## Records the workspace keeps
- Chimney and appliance record: fuel, liner, flue size, cap
- Inspection level performed with certification reference
- Creosote grade and clearance findings with camera stills
- Repair proposal: liner, crown, cap, masonry
- Insurance and real-estate transaction report

## Workflows it ships with
- Sweep appointment → level-two camera inspection → documented findings
- Repair proposal generated from graded findings
- Annual pre-season reminder to prior customers
- Real-estate transaction inspection with a report the agent can use

## Modules
- CRM (Contacts, Companies, Deals)
- Calendar & Meetings
- Tasks
- ERP - Work Orders
- Client Portal & Intake
- Invoices
- Payments & Checkout
- Messaging (Email, SMS, Voice)
- Campaign Manager
- XODIAK Chain & Treasury
- Media Library (Audio/Video/Image)
- Analysis & Insights
- ERP - Inventory
- ERP - Vendors & Purchasing
- Content Studio
- Partners & Revenue Share

## Integrations wired first
- Certification bodies
- Liner and component suppliers
- Stripe
- QuickBooks

## The numbers the owner checks
- Inspection-to-repair conversion
- Appointments per sweep-day in season
- Pre-season reminder capture rate
- Average repair ticket

## Who buys
- Homeowners with wood and gas fireplaces
- Real-estate transactions requiring inspection
- Property managers with multi-unit fireplaces

## What hurts without it
- Findings described verbally, so repairs never get approved
- Seasonal demand with no off-season pipeline
- Certification and code references not captured on the report

## How the business makes money
- Sweeps and level-one through level-three inspections
- Liner, cap, crown, and masonry repair
- Annual maintenance plans and transaction inspections

## What it costs
- The workspace opens free, scaffolded with all 16 modules.
- Premium surfaces unlock individually — monthly, or a 24-hour unlock.
- Credits: $20 for 500 XDK, spendable across any surface. Balance carries.
- Multi-branch and own-domain deployments are quoted per market.

There is no published per-seat subscription tier for this vertical. Any figure
quoted elsewhere as a xSERVICESx monthly price is not ours. Ask.

## Frequently asked
### Is xCHIMNEYx a separate product from the Biz Dev App?
No. xCHIMNEYx is the chimney sweep & fireplace service configuration of the
Biz Dev App — the same platform, the same ledger, the same support, scaffolded
with the 16 modules and 5 record types this trade actually uses. If the
business later adds a second line of work, it does not mean a second
subscription; it means another vertical switched on in the same workspace.

### How does xCHIMNEYx price a job?
On sweep and inspection by level, with liner, cap, and masonry repairs quoted
separately. The basis lives in the workspace rather than in an estimator's
head, so the same job quoted by two people produces the same number. Your own
rates, your own catalogue — the platform supplies the structure and the
arithmetic, never the prices.

### What does it connect to that we already use?
Certification bodies, Liner and component suppliers, Stripe, QuickBooks are
wired first, because those are what a chimney sweep & fireplace service
business is usually already running. Anything else goes through the xCONNECTx
public API catalogue rather than a custom build.

### What happens to the data we already have?
It comes in. The archive import pipeline takes historical customers, jobs and
invoices and lands them as real records — searchable, reportable, attached to
the right customer — rather than as a folder of PDFs nobody opens. The point
of moving is to keep the last five years, not to start over.

## Built on Biz Dev App
xCHIMNEYx is one of 74 service verticals on the Biz Dev App — the operating
system for the AI economy. The leading and trailing x are platform brackets:
Cross-Connect Protocol in, Cross-Connect Protocol out. Every vertical shares
one identity, one ledger (XODIAK) and one settlement rail, so a business that
runs two lines of work runs them in one workspace rather than two
subscriptions.

## Nearby verticals
- xSTAGEx (Home Staging & Styling) — https://thebdapp.com/xstagex
- xINSPECTx (Property Inspection) — https://thebdapp.com/xinspectx
- xTURNOVERx (Short-Term Rental Turnover) — https://thebdapp.com/xturnoverx
- xGUTTERx (Gutter Cleaning & Protection) — https://thebdapp.com/xgutterx

## Key pages
- https://thebdapp.com/xchimneyx — this page
- https://thebdapp.com/xchimneyx#how — intake, price, dispatch, prove, settle
- https://thebdapp.com/xchimneyx#workspace — the module inventory
- https://thebdapp.com/xchimneyx#operations — records, workflows, integrations, KPIs
- https://thebdapp.com/xchimneyx#signals — how the platform finds work before it is advertised
- https://thebdapp.com/xchimneyx#cost — what it costs
- https://thebdapp.com/x/chimney — the vertical inside the app
- https://thebdapp.com/xservicesx — all 74 verticals
- https://thebdapp.com — the platform

## Contact
- Email: bill@bdsrvs.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizDevService
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/64721742/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebdapp/

## Last updated
2026-09-15